{"id":13308,"date":"2012-01-30T10:08:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T15:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13308"},"modified":"2012-01-30T10:08:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T15:08:31","slug":"researching-how-to-stop-asteroids-from-just-dropping-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/researching-how-to-stop-asteroids-from-just-dropping-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Researching how to stop asteroids from &#8220;just dropping in&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/01\/30\/neoshield_to_stop_asteroid_armageddon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brid-Aine Parnell<\/a> in <em>The Register<\/em> on some of the technologies being explored to reduce or eliminate the chance of unpleasantly close encounters with celestial objects:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A new international consortium has been set up to figure out what Earthlings could do if an asteroid came hurtling towards the planet on a path of imminent destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The project will look at three methods of averting disaster: the Hollywood-sanctioned solutions of sending up a crack team of deep drillers with a nuclear bomb to sort it out, or frantically hurling of all our nukes at it; dragging it to safety with a <em>Star Trek<\/em>-inspired tractor beam; or hitting it with something we have more control over, like a spaceship.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting the cool moniker NEOShield, the project will explore the possibilities for kinetic impactors, gravity tractors and blast deflection as ways to save our planet from oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the light of results arising from our research into the feasibility of the various mitigation approaches and the mission design work, we aim to formulate for the first time a global response campaign roadmap that may be implemented when an actual significant impact threat arises,&#8221; NEOShield boldly stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brid-Aine Parnell in The Register on some of the technologies being explored to reduce or eliminate the chance of unpleasantly close encounters with celestial objects: A new international consortium has been set up to figure out what Earthlings could do if an asteroid came hurtling towards the planet on a path of imminent destruction. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,16,44,15],"tags":[423,337,107,513],"class_list":["post-13308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-science","category-space-science","category-technology","tag-asteroids","tag-eu","tag-nukes","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3sE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13309,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions\/13309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}